What should we call our app game about linguistic diversity?

Hello! Wanna help us find a name for a smartphone app game about linguistic diversity?

I'm working with Seán Roberts (of MPI Nijmegen and the blog Replicated Typo), Mark Dingemanse (also of MPI Nijmegen but of the blog the Ideophone) and Peter Withers & Pashiera Barkhuysen at the Language in Interaction project (WP7) to create a game for smartphones that let's you compete in recognising and explore languages of the world.

This time: how to take your search results and make the matching annotations into new separate tier(s). This is useful if you for example want to cycle through only the annotations that match a certain search query in transcription mode. This post has a longer guide, and a short guide at the end.

You can also use this guide if you want to compare several different transcriptions with each other, for example older and newer versions or if you are collaborating with different people. In that case, start from step (4).

For those who don't do a lot of transcription: ELAN (EUDICO Linguistic Annotator) is a program from TLA at MPI-Nijmegen. This program allows us to easily annotate audio and/or video files with lots of relevant data. We can use ELAN to c…

Humans Who Read Grammars

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